📺 YouTube reigns supreme: YouTube continues to gain ground with TV viewers. New research from Nielsen shows that YouTube has maintained the largest share of TV viewing for three consecutive months. The platform now accounts for 12.4% of the overall TV viewing audience.
📉 Tesla tumbles: Tesla continues to fall out of favor in Europe, perhaps thanks to Elon Musk's ties with U.S. president Donald Trump. In April, Tesla sold a little more than 7,000 vehicles in the EU, which marked a year-over-year drop of nearly 50%. Even worse, other EV companies are taking that market share.
🦸 AI team, assemble! WordPress announced that it has created an AI team that will focus on developing AI products for the company's developer community. Developers on the platform currently have access to 660 different AI plug-ins.
💼 Already affecting jobs: While it's hard to definitively say that AI is already shrinking available jobs, the signs are all there, especially for entry-level positions. New research shows that tech companies recruited fewer college students in 2024, compared to 2023, and 40% of employers plan to cut staff where AI can be used.
👀 The drama continues: Self-driving truck startup TuSimple, now CreateAI, sent troves of sensitive data to a Beijing-owned firm in 2022, just a week after it told the U.S. government it would not transfer data of that nature due to national security.
